Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Summerhouse.
Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt
- WRENN ID
- north-glass-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Address
- Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt, St Marys Gate
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 620
- Coordinates
- 54.05133, -2.80411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden house behind No. 2 Greycourt is a summerhouse built in the late 18th century and restored around 1987. It is constructed of squared sandstone rubble with an ashlar upper storey and features a slate roof. The building has an octagonal plan and consists of two storeys above a cellar. It is positioned against a garden wall, with a doorway located on the south-east side.
On the ground floor, there are windows on three sides to the right of the doorway, featuring glazing bar sashes that appear to be 20th-century reproductions of the originals. The first-floor windows are similar and include a sill band. The southern side, to the left of the doorway, has a blind recess. The structure is topped with a stone gutter cornice and a central octagonal ashlar chimney cap.
Inside, the garden house contains a cantilevered stone stair with iron stick balusters and a mahogany handrail. A second flight of stone steps leads down to a barrel-vaulted cellar. On the first floor, there is a cast-iron fireplace surround with a hob grate and boiler.
Historically, the garden house is not depicted on Stephen Mackereth's map of 1778, but it does appear in J Walker's engraving of Lancaster Old Bridge from 1797. In 1807, Clark noted that a fragment of the adjoining Wery Wall supported the north wall of the summerhouse, which was located next to the Vicarage Field.
Local climate
Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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